Download or read book Growing Up with Autism written by Robin L. Gabriels and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individuals with autism and their caregivers face unique challenges in later childhood and adolescence. This volume translates research on the needs of this population into practical recommendations for clinicians and educators. The book features vivid case examples and an in-depth, reproducible assessment form. Accessible guidance and hands-on suggestions are provided for supporting positive behavior, communication, and social skills; managing issues related to mental and physical health and sexuality; helping families access services and navigate the legal system; and optimizing the educational and transition planning process.

Download or read book Autism in the School Aged Child written by Autism Family Press and published by Autism Family Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Changes in Prevalence of Parent reported Autism Spectrum Disorder in School aged U S Children 2007 to 2011 2012 written by Stephen J. Blumberg and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Teaching Children with High Level Autism written by Pamela LePage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Children with High-Level Autism combines the perspectives of families and children with disabilities and frames these personal experiences in the context of evidence-based practice, providing pre- and in-service teachers and professionals with vital information on how they can help children with high-level autism reach their full potential. Many children with high-level autism are capable of regulating their behaviors given the right interventions, and this cutting edge text explores multiple methods for helping such children succeed academically, socially, and behaviorally. The book: • draws from interviews with twenty families who have middle- and high-school-aged children with high functioning autism or Aspergers syndrome; • presents a synthesis of the most cutting-edge research in the field; • provides practical advice for educating children with high-level autism; • is authored by two special education professors who are also both the parents of children with disabilities. Teaching Children with High-Level Autism is essential reading for anyone who works or plans to work with children on the upper range of the autism spectrum.

Download or read book Educating Children with Autism written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-11-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autism is a word most of us are familiar with. But do we really know what it means? Children with autism are challenged by the most essential human behaviors. They have difficulty interacting with other people-often failing to see people as people rather than simply objects in their environment. They cannot easily communicate ideas and feelings, have great trouble imagining what others think or feel, and in some cases spend their lives speechless. They frequently find it hard to make friends or even bond with family members. Their behavior can seem bizarre. Education is the primary form of treatment for this mysterious condition. This means that we place important responsibilities on schools, teachers and children's parents, as well as the other professionals who work with children with autism. With the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975, we accepted responsibility for educating children who face special challenges like autism. While we have since amassed a substantial body of research, researchers have not adequately communicated with one another, and their findings have not been integrated into a proven curriculum. Educating Children with Autism outlines an interdisciplinary approach to education for children with autism. The committee explores what makes education effective for the child with autism and identifies specific characteristics of programs that work. Recommendations are offered for choosing educational content and strategies, introducing interaction with other children, and other key areas. This book examines some fundamental issues, including: How children's specific diagnoses should affect educational assessment and planning How we can support the families of children with autism Features of effective instructional and comprehensive programs and strategies How we can better prepare teachers, school staffs, professionals, and parents to educate children with autism What policies at the federal, state, and local levels will best ensure appropriate education, examining strategies and resources needed to address the rights of children with autism to appropriate education. Children with autism present educators with one of their most difficult challenges. Through a comprehensive examination of the scientific knowledge underlying educational practices, programs, and strategies, Educating Children with Autism presents valuable information for parents, administrators, advocates, researchers, and policy makers.

Download or read book School age Education Programs for Children with Autism written by Jan S. Handleman and published by Pro-Ed. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handleman (psychology and Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center, Rutgers U.) and Harris (clinical psychology and Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center, Rutgers U.) compile 12 essays that examine educational services for autistic children that are public, private, or university-based. Contributors discuss their programs in New Jersey, New York, Delaware, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Each contributor describes diagnosis and assessment, staffing and administration, curriculum, integration, methods, family involvement, school transitions, and outcome. The last two chapters address special issues in graduating from preschool in addition to moving to adulthood. There is no index. Handleman and Harris are the authors of Preschool Education Programs for Children with Autism. Annotation :2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Download or read book National Autism Plan for Children NAPC written by Ann Le Couteur and published by National Autistic Society. This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educating Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders written by Erin E. Barton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the CDC, one in fifty American children is diagnosed as having an autism spectrum disorder. This means more school-aged children are entering classrooms with ASDs and teachers are being called upon to help facilitate their learning. Educating Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders is aimed at providing strategies for teachers, school counselors, and psychologists to help address the needs of children on the spectrum, as well as their families. Erin E. Barton and Beth Harn draw on current research and practices to discuss the possible causes of autism and to help prepare educators not only for teaching children in the classroom but also for providing families with the tools necessary to continue the educational process at home. Included are topics such as: Improving communication and socialization Developing instructive lessons Assessing students' progress Including families in educational goals Finding students' special interests and using those to help facilitate learning Managing challenging behavior And more Including forms, charts, and a range of classroom activities, this is the only resource you will need to gain the insight and tools for making a difference in the educational lives of young children with autism.

Download or read book Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Clarissa Willis and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when a three-year-old with autism falls on the floor kicking and screaming? How do you communicate with a child who looks away and flaps his hands? Who can help if you suspect a child in your class has autism? Preschool can be overwhelming for a child with autism. Autism affects how a child communicates, behaves, and relates to others. Teachers need to know what they can do to help children with autism reach their full potential. Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder is a straightforward, easy-to-understand guide to working with children who have autism. It explains the major characteristics associated with autism and helps teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world. Each chapter offers specific strategies for teachers to use, including setting up a proactive preschool environment, helping children learn life skills, managing behavior, helping children with autism communicate, encouraging children with autism to play, helping them to get along with others, and working with families. Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder helps teachers connect with all children in meaningful ways, allowing children with autism to learn and grow. Putting All the Pieces Together: Understanding This Puzzle Called Autism From Hand-Flapping to Obsession with Routines: The Way Children With Autism Relate to Their World Planning for Success: Setting Up a Proactive Preschool Environment Learning Life Skills Misbehavior or Missed Communication: Managing the Behaviors of Children With Autism Signs, Symbols, and Language: Helping a Child Communicate Inside Their Own World: Encouraging Children With Autism to Play Building Social Skills: Getting Along With Others Lights! Camera! Action! Sensory Integration and Autism We're All in This Together: Teaming Up With Families.

Download or read book Developmental Assessment of the School Aged Child with Developmental Disabilities written by M. S. Thambirajah and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems who are referred to mental health services for assessment often have undiagnosed mild learning disabilities, and this guide is written for clinicians involved in making such assessments. It provides full guidance on common developmental disorders and their assessment, focusing on mild to moderate disabilities in the school-aged child. It covers intellectual disabilities, dyslexia, dyscalculia (mathematical disability), autism spectrum disorders, speech and language impairment, developmental coordination disorder, and emotional and personality development. Each chapter includes an account of normal development, including developmental milestones, an overview of the disorder, and its clinical assessment. This important professional guide will be invaluable for all child health and mental health professionals and trainees, including paediatricians, psychiatrists, mental health workers, clinical psychologists and educational psychologists.

Download or read book Executive Functioning for School Aged Children with Autism written by Sohyun An Kim and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive functioning (EF) is found to be a powerful predictor for children's school readiness and long-term school outcomes. However, the current research base indicates that children with autism may have an increased likelihood of experiencing deficits in EF or delayed developmental trajectories. Additionally, although there is ample evidence that neurotypical (NT) children undergo a "sensitive period" with high plasticity in EF development in early childhood, and continue to make progress up to early adolescence, it is unclear if such a window of opportunity applies to autistic children in the same way it does for their NT peers, and if the longitudinal trajectory of growth follows a parallel pattern. Study 1 used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies-Kindergarten Class of 2011 (ECLS-K: 2011), and unconditional latent growth models were built for working memory and cognitive flexibility to identify the period of high plasticity in EF skills in autistic children and how it differed from that of their NT peers. It further investigated the relationship between autistic children's initial status in EF skills upon entering kindergarten and their rates of growth throughout their elementary school life. Lastly, it examined how the degree of heterogeneity in autistic children in their EF performances changed over time, and how such changes differed from that of their NT peers. Findings from Study 1 indicate that both autistic and NT children make steeper gains during the first few years of elementary school, and the rates of growth slow down as they get older. However, autistic children appear to have a wider window for high plasticity than their NT peers. Further, autistic children's lower initial status on working memory upon entering kindergarten predicted a higher rate of growth during the last three years of elementary school only, while a lower initial status on cognitive flexibility predicted a higher rate of growth throughout their elementary school years. Lastly, while both autistic and NT children show greater heterogeneity in their EF performances when they are younger, the heterogeneity decreases as they approach their "plateauing" points. However, the overall degrees of heterogeneity were higher in the autistic children than their NT peers, which indicates some degree of continued heterogeneity in their growth during the later years of elementary school. As indicated in Study 1, EF in autistic children is highly malleable throughout their childhood, and current literature base supports that various student-level and environmental factors play important roles in their development. In Study 2, conditional latent growth models were built to identify possible predictors for autistic children's working memory and cognitive flexibility performance upon entering kindergarten and their relative growth throughout their elementary school years. Findings indicate that socioeconomic status (SES) and students' approaches to learning (ATL) positively predicted autistic children's working memory performance upon entering kindergarten. Having ADHD, receipt of special education services at school, and students' ATL positively predicted autistic children's rate of growth in working memory during the first three years of their elementary school years, while student-teacher relationship (STR) predicted their rate of growth in working memory during the last three years of their elementary school. In addition, STR and ATL positively predicted autistic children's cognitive flexibility performance upon entering kindergarten, while living in a bilingual home environment positively predicted their rate of growth in cognitive flexibility during the first three years of autistic children's elementary school years. Implications and future directions are discussed

Download or read book Embracing and Educating the Autistic Child written by Nicholas D. Young and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the continued rise in the diagnosis of autism for school-aged students, particularly in the United States, the need for tailoring our instructional practices and programs for this population is at a pivotal point. Embracing and Educating the Autistic Child: Valuing Those Who Color Outside the Lines, takes a look at the extensive research pertaining to the unique learning needs and characteristics of the autistic student. The authors provide valuable insights into how educators, school leaders, parents, community members and college professors can turn the tide to academic success for this population of students.

Download or read book Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low Income Children written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million children who were recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits in 2013, about 50% were disabled primarily due to a mental disorder. An increase in the number of children who are recipients of SSI benefits due to mental disorders has been observed through several decades of the program beginning in 1985 and continuing through 2010. Nevertheless, less than 1% of children in the United States are recipients of SSI disability benefits for a mental disorder. At the request of the Social Security Administration, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children compares national trends in the number of children with mental disorders with the trends in the number of children receiving benefits from the SSI program, and describes the possible factors that may contribute to any differences between the two groups. This report provides an overview of the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, and the levels of impairment in the U.S. population under age 18. The report focuses on 6 mental disorders, chosen due to their prevalence and the severity of disability attributed to those disorders within the SSI disability program: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mood disorders. While this report is not a comprehensive discussion of these disorders, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children provides the best currently available information regarding demographics, diagnosis, treatment, and expectations for the disorder time course - both the natural course and under treatment.

Download or read book Diagnostic History and Treatment of School aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Special Health Care Needs written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quality of Life of School aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Mandy Fulton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality of life among children is a multidimensional construct that encompasses social, emotional, school, and physical well-being, and is influenced by both individual and contextual factors (Kuhlthau et al., 2013; WHO, 1995). The current study evaluated the quality of life of school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder(ASD) as perceived by their parent. To address limitations of previous work, global and domain-specific quality of life, variation across domains, and variation in ratings by the child’s age and gender were explored. Consistent with a bioecological framework, both individual (i.e., ASD symptom severity, maladaptive behaviours, adaptive skills, and grit) and contextual (i.e., parent mental health, sibling type, school type, reciprocal friendship, and leisure) factors were assessed in predicting quality of life. In addition to direct relationships, potential indirect relationships between specific individual and contextual factors and higher quality of life were examined. Data were collected online, internationally, from 152 parents of children ages 8 to 11 years old with ASD. Global and domain-specific quality of life were found to be lower compared to published normative data. Physical quality of life was higher than social, school, and emotional quality of life and school quality of life was higher than social quality of life. Neither the child’s age nor gender was significantly associated with quality of life. Symptoms of ASD, maladaptive behaviours, and adaptive skills predicted social quality of life; maladaptive behaviours and adaptive skills predicted emotional quality of life; maladaptive behaviours, adaptive skills, and grit predicted school quality of life; and maladaptive behaviours and adaptive skills predicted physical quality of life. No support was found for indirect relationships. Implications for understanding and improving quality of life among school-aged children with ASD are discussed.

Download or read book Comprehensive Guide to Autism written by Vinood B. Patel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autism is a complex multifaceted disorder affecting neurodevelopment during the early years of life and, for many, throughout the life span. Inherent features include difficulties or deficits in communication, social interaction, cognition, and interpersonal behavioral coordination, to name just a few. Autism profoundly impacts the affected individual, the family, and, in many cases, the localized communities. The increased prevalence of childhood autism has resulted in rapid developments in a wide range of disciplines in recent years. Nevertheless, despite intensive research, the cause(s) remain unresolved and no single treatment strategy is employed. To address these issues, Comprehensive Guide to Autism is an all-embracing reference that offers analyses and discussions of contemporary issues in the field of autism. The work brings together scientific material from leading experts in the field relating to a wide range of important current topics, such as the early identification and treatment of children with autism, pertinent social and behavioral studies, recent developments in genetics and immunology, the influence of diet, models of autism, and future treatment prospects. Comprehensive Guide to Autism contains essential readings for behavioral science researchers, psychologists, physicians, social workers, parents, and caregivers.

Download or read book A Practical Guide to Autism written by Fred R. Volkmar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible guide to the most recent information about autism The revised and updated second edition of A Practical Guide to Autism offers an authoritative guide to the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of Autism/Autism Spectrum Disorder. Written by two highly regarded medical professionals, the book offers parents, family memberts, and teachers a useful review of the concept of autism, its diagnosis, and the most current treatments available. This comprehensive resource covers the range of the condition in infants, young, and school age children, adolescents, and adults. The authors explore evidence-based treatments and review of some of the alternative and complementary treatments proposed for autism. Information on educational programs and entitlement services are also provided. In addition, the book contains information on issues, such as medical care, medication use, safety, behavioral, and mental health problems. The book covers the range of ages and entire spectrum of autism and provides an introduction to the diagnostic concept. With the expanding number of treatments and interventions this book is a useful guide for all those involved in caring for individuals on the autism spectrum. This important guide: Offers lists of resources for parents and professionals compiled by experts in the field and reviewed by parents. Includes updated research that adheres to DSM-5 standards. Provides an accessible resource with succinct content delivery Contains new discussions on modern treatments that have been identified since the publication of the first edition. Written for parents, teachers, and caregivers, A Practical Guide to Autism, Second Edition offers an updated and expanded edition to the practical guide to autism.